Hi, I'm Rahul. I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Google working on AndroidX Performance; focusing on making the Android ecosystem fast and efficient. This blog is my outlet for writing about software engineering and Android performance. Outside of work, I'm a bit of a tinkerer—obsessed with mechanical keyboards…
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Having read some amazing books on Machine Learning, I had been looking for opportunities to apply ML from first principles in the real world. That was what got me curious about the wonderful Donkey Car project. The project is essentially a how-to guide to building your own RC car which can drive itself around a track…
I signed up for the excellent fastai MOOC recently, and one of the project ideas I had was the idea of adding bokehs to selfies using Deep learning. Most phones have a not so great selfie (front-side) camera and therefore this idea has some merits.